Kinos' Journey

TheRedJet

Now that I look at Japanese Kino no Tabi I see that the Volumes are very short like 260 pages,240 pages and even 1 volumes have 208 pages and if that many pages are translated it could have at least 144 pages if I am not wrong even less :( Well I don´t mind that they are short at least they are very enjoyable and JNC would translated 21 volumes in a FLASH :D

Bravo0723

Kino the Beautiful World LN's were released in English in the mid 2000's

Korppi

@bravo0723 said in Kinos' Journey:

Kino the Beautiful World LN's were released in English in the mid 2000's

No, only the first volume was released by TokyoPop, back in 2006. Aaand they rearranged the chapters to put them all in chronological order.

All in all, it's better we pretend that release never happened...

TheRedJet

@korppi yeah Tokyopop screw up Kino´s Journey with rearanging chapter and making their own cover and the color pages weren´t even included there and because of this all Japanese Publisher was pretty angry with it and since then we have nothing because of Tokyopop

Nol_Mimi_Reyalta

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Rahul Balaggan

crossfoxlurk

@rahul-balaggan That's depressing to hear but hey hey at least we have Majo no Tabitabi as an Alternative....

yumenokage

@rahul-balaggan said in Kinos' Journey:

Anyone know the reason for this?

Rahul Balaggan

@yumenokage most likely has something to do with this:
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BloodyGaikotsu

@rahul-balaggan

I think when he said "come and gone", he was referring to the anime.
All these old stuff coming back usually have a new upcoming anime, cuz marketing a novel series by a new ongoing (or recently finished) anime is the easiest marketing scheme for these titles

FMP anime just ended last summer
Kino, that was in 2017 (Too long has passed)

TheRedJet

Vol.22 is slated forJuly 2019!!(1 year 9 months since last vol.)

kino

I was wondering when a new volume would release.

TheRedJet

Cover for Vol. XXII(22) releasing next month!!!.......SO FOCKIN BEAUTIFUL!!!! alt text

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yumenokage

Still hoping against hope that this gets picked up someday.

saffire

I would love to have this in English but I'm not surprised it's super pricy to license.

yumenokage

Since the recent license batch has spurred more suggestions, I thought I'd give this topic a bump. I know it's not the easiest to license, but I would be thrilled if it can one day follow the recent trend of some older and rescue series being licensed that everyone thought would never happen.

This is one I like enough to put in the effort to read it in Japanese (painfully slowly, but it's good motivation for me to keep up and hopefully improve my modest level of Japanese after graduating), and I will buy it both digitally and physically if given the opportunity.

HarmlessDave

Bump because I bought Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina, Vol. 1 and found it shallow and boring compared to both versions of the Kino anime.

Reading WWtJoA makes me really wish for a rescue of Kino :( ... I guess I'll just watch Kino again over the holiday break instead.

yumenokage

@HarmlessDave Yeah, I was rather disappointed in the first Elaina book seeing as how people refer to it as "magical Kino's Journey" sometimes. But the second one was a big improvement imo, so maybe give it another shot?

All the high-profile rescues lately give me hope that Kino's Journey may one day be picked up too.

heimdal7

This just got a new light novel volume released it would be great to see J-novel try to license it (again?).